James Sullivan

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In 1978, Pat Wells cut an album that didn’t make it big. In 2025, songs from it landed on Netflix. - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

The new show that wanted to incorporate her music is “Sirens,” the dark comedy starring Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon.
The Berkshires International Film Fest returns this weekend with Brian Cox as honoree - The Boston Globe

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

Jacqueline Christy is hard at work promoting her debut feature film, “Magic Hour.” Twelve hours or so after returning to New York from Cannes, she’s on the phone from an Amtrak lounge, waiting to board the train that will take her upstate. Her film screens Friday afternoon at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, the hub of the Berkshire International Film Festival.
Dave Matthews, Vampire Weekend, and more at Boston Calling day three

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

It’s been eight years since Boston Calling moved from City Hall Plaza to the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston. On Sunday, the final day of the signature festival’s 2025 edition, Harvard University and its fellow institutions of higher education finally got their moment in the sun. Not that the weather, bleak as it was all weekend, cooperated.
W. Kamau Bell isn’t backing down on keeping politics in his act - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

You may recognize W. Kamau Bell’s trademark thick glasses from your television screen. Beginning in 2016, he hosted seven seasons of the civics road show “United Shades of America” on CNN. After that program ended, he made a four-part documentary series for Showtime about the complicated legacy of the comedian he once adored, Bill Cosby.
Late Boston rock critic Steve Morse to be honored with tribute concert - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

A tribute concert to honor late Boston music critic Steve Morse will take place at Sally O’Brien’s on May 22.Rich Sullivan“He was a wonderful man,” said Jessa Piaia, Morse’s fiancée at the time of his death, in a recent phone conversation. He treated everyone well, she said: “He was a good listener.”That was the job description for Morse’s career.
Here’s something new: Saturday is the first international Vintage Store Day. - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

When Andrea Ardito strays from her Nest — that’s her vintage shop in the West End neighborhood of Portsmouth, N.H. — she’s still on the job. She travels all around New England, into Canada, and overseas to France and Italy to source used goods for her carefully curated shop. “I’m picking up things that give me that jolt, things that have that joyful energy,” she says.
At Somerville concert, Amanda Palmer says she feels ‘overwhelmed’ - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

Amanda Palmer played several anguished new songs and conducted a question-and-answer session for an audience of about 300 at the Armory in Somerville on Saturday. It was a return to the stage for her after a woman filed a civil lawsuit against her estranged husband, the writer Neil Gaiman, earlier this year accusing him of sexual assault and Palmer of trafficking and negligence.
Devo didn’t expect to be quite so prescient - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

Travel back in time, if you will, to Ohio’s Kent State University in the early 1970s, when a small group of like-minded students were formulating a high-concept art project. While studying visual art and performance, these students came to believe that human beings were regressing into vapidity and chaos. Their ideas about the “de-evolution” of modern society proved to have staying power.
A major country star stepped in to help buy a space for a Jack Kerouac center in Lowell - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

When Zach Bryan introduced “Burn, Burn, Burn” on social media in 2022, he shared a tribute to the late writer Jack Kerouac, whose classic Beat novel “On the Road” had inspired the song. The record-setting songwriter is more than just a Kerouac fan: He’s now the owner of the Lowell church that is slated to become the home of the Jack Kerouac Center, a multi-purpose enterprise in honor of the city’s favorite son.
At Boston Fringe, ‘Jackie & Allison Into the Multiverse’ elevates absurdity into art - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

The best comment Jackie Skinner ever got after a performance sounded like an insult. “There’s something wrong with you,” a woman told her, “but I like that.”For Skinner, it was a complete validation. “The world is so big, and you’re so small,” she says. “Every performance you do is a gift.”Skinner is one-half of Jackie and Allison, a sketch comedy team that specializes in “clowning” — not the Ringling Bros.

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Articles

In 1978, Pat Wells cut an album that didn’t make it big. In 2025, songs from it landed on Netflix. - The Boston Globe

The Berkshires International Film Fest returns this weekend with Brian Cox as honoree - The Boston Globe

Dave Matthews, Vampire Weekend, and more at Boston Calling day three

W. Kamau Bell isn’t backing down on keeping politics in his act - The Boston Globe

Late Boston rock critic Steve Morse to be honored with tribute concert - The Boston Globe

Here’s something new: Saturday is the first international Vintage Store Day. - The Boston Globe

At Somerville concert, Amanda Palmer says she feels ‘overwhelmed’ - The Boston Globe

Devo didn’t expect to be quite so prescient - The Boston Globe

A major country star stepped in to help buy a space for a Jack Kerouac center in Lowell - The Boston Globe

At Boston Fringe, ‘Jackie & Allison Into the Multiverse’ elevates absurdity into art - The Boston Globe

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Lauren Young

Solangi Sosa

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